British parents ask: Why are so many middle-class children speaking in Jamaican patois? – Repeating Islands

Nick Harding worries about the new “linguistic affectation” that England’s young people have adopted—a hybrid of accents incorporating “Jamaican patois, American west coast and London.” He wonders why so many English children are speaking a version of what academics call ‘Multicultural Youth English’, or MYE—a mix of South Londonese and Western American, with strong Jamaican…

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